bash query

[User Iam]

On 6/11/07, dave selby <dave6502 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a bash script that scans a dir with ...
>
> for sourcedir in KDE/*
>
> this cycles through everything in KDE/ - however i need to skip
> certain file names. Anybody know how to implement this ? - my bash is
> somewhat rusty :)
>
> Cheers
>
> dave



Is this kinda what you want

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
#! /bin/bash

for i in $( ls /etc   | grep ^z -v );   # everything but  stuff with z
do
                 echo file: $i
done


@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

I used grep as a fitler to rid everything I didn't want...
<in this case z>
HTH

Lamsok





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